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07-25-2017, 12:30 PM
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ROAD RAGE! How Do You Deal w/ Idiots?
Not another dumb thread!
Okay, not sure if anyone remembers but I had some anger issues that surfaced whenever I got behind the wheel. After getting some great wisdom from members like Sir Cotten, I was able to calm down and have stopped driving aggressively and have stopped reacting to dumb things that other drivers do. However, this past weekend, this car cuts over 3 lanes almost missing an exit. I got cut off and this car put my wife and my son in absolute danger when this vehicle cut us off on a highway. How would you have reacted if you were me? Me? I lost my cool and flipped off the driver. I guess what really ticked him off was the fact that I flipped him off but was only looking straight. He was trying so hard to get me to turn and look at him. 
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07-25-2017, 12:44 PM
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Drive defensively. Realize that your anger does no good so far as affecting the other driver's behavior, it just increases your blood pressure and makes YOU more likely to do something stupid putting your family at risk.
Most US drivers couldn't finish one MOPAR qualifying lap to save their mortal lives. A good many couldn't find the finish line without Google maps.
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07-25-2017, 12:45 PM
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your finger won't stop them. number 1 priority is family not you(altho you are driving), so let them do what they want and you should minimize any further possibility of danger. that means slow down, change lanes or whatever it takes.
play music!
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07-25-2017, 12:58 PM
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07-25-2017, 01:31 PM
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Do what all of us do. Flip him the bird, call him a name, and complain to your wife about how some people shouldn't be allowed to drive. Then just keep on driving.
Last edited by Kerbie; 07-25-2017 at 01:33 PM. Reason: Language
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07-25-2017, 01:36 PM
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Unimogbert Last edited by unimogbert; 03-07-2023 at 09:31 PM.
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07-25-2017, 01:36 PM
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You have to ignore them.
Driving in The UAE is a good way to get over road rage because by the time you have reacted to the first incident of the day there will have been 6 more by the time you take your next breath. This is not an exaggeration. To give you a starting point for you to grasp how bad it is they consider using indicators as a sign of weakness.
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07-25-2017, 01:45 PM
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Things I have considered doing but will never do since they could be a criminal act.
1. Shake a coke can and throw it at or into the vehicle. 2. Take the shredder bin from work, get in front of the vehicle, and unload all the paper out of the bin. Quote:
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07-25-2017, 01:51 PM
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[QUOTE=Rudals;5420721]Things I have considered doing but will never do since they could be a criminal act.
1. Shake a coke can and throw it at or into the vehicle. 2. Take the shredder bin from work, get in front of the vehicle, and unload all the paper out of the bin.[QUOTE] What do you do when he pulls out his concealed carry .357? Don't escalate an already bad situation.
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07-25-2017, 01:52 PM
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If there's an object ahead or other road hazard I don't get mad at it, I simply deal with it, drive around it, slow down, whatever. If there's a human caused hazard I simply deal with it as though it were the result of a non-human cause.
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07-25-2017, 02:00 PM
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Uh...I am not proposing that I do these things but just saying I have gotten so mad at times that I pondered doing absurd things like this. A cigarette butt can be consider, by definition, a missile if it is flicked out of a car and hits your car per the police. So I would not even think of doing things that I mentioned above.
I am usually just chill and always keep a safe distance between me and the car in front. But people take advantage of even that by cutting in. I let things just go. But if it crosses a threshhold then a switch flips. My wife says why are you cussing at them, they cant hear you but your son and your wife can. Wife is always right...weird.
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07-25-2017, 02:30 PM
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I drive my car the same way I ride my motorcycles...
I assume everyone on the road is out to kill me, and sometimes they almost succeed...sometimes I think it's out of ignorance, sometimes I believe it's an intentional act of anger and rage... Of course, no one's killed me yet, so when these things happen, my first reaction is relief, and my next is to get as far away from the idiot as possible, and get my mind back on my driving... Because the next idiot is coming right up...
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